Winston Niles Rumfoord wrote:Apparently you don't understand what he said.

"Counterbalanced" means "cancelled".

He said. that for a specific period of time, the water vapor was deficient enough to temporarily counteract the warming effects of the CO2. Or did you miss that specific time period, and temporary, part?

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The whole thing was on one particular event. It was of an atypical reduction in water vapor at a particular altitude during a particular time period. That reduction was sufficient to counteract the CO2 warming during that period.

In other words, the lower warming effects of the reduced water vapor layer reduced the warming effect of the CO2 while the reduction of water vapor continued. Once the water vapor increased again, so did the warming.

From your link:

... There is some evidence that free tropospheric vapor has decreased in recent decades ...

... resulting cooling effect of a decrease in vapor has approximately counterbalanced the warming influence of increasing CO2 over the same period of time ...

,,, ConclusionWhile it seems rather obvious intuitively that a warmer world will have more atmospheric water vapor, and thus positive water vapor feedback, I’ve just listed the first 5 reasons that come to my mind why this might not be the case.

I am not saying that’s what I necessarily believe. I will admit to having waffled on this issue over the years, but that’s because there is evidence on both sides of the debate.

At a minimum, I believe the water vapor feedback issue is more complicated than most mainstream researchers think it is.

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